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519. Ozzy Osbourne & Randy Road - Suicide Solution (Live 1981): 6/10
520. Boyd Bennett and His Rockets - Hit That Jive Jack: 7/10
521. Eva Cassidy - Wayfaring Stranger: 6/10
520. Boyd Bennett and His Rockets - Hit That Jive Jack: 7/10
521. Eva Cassidy - Wayfaring Stranger: 6/10
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Like Rob said earlier, lots of good to great versions of this song around. (My personal favorite is Bill Monroe's from 1958). Eva's got a beautiful voice, but I feel the smooth jazzy arrangement and increased tempo makes it lose it's heft - it goes from a dirge to elevator music. If your looking for elevator music, you could do worse - it just doesn't do the song justice. 4.
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Sorry - Prince's U Got the Look gets a measly 3 from me.
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516. Die Ärtze – Vorbei ist Vorbei: 5
517. The Microphones - Map: 8
518. Tomoya Ohtani – Boss: Solaris Phase 2: 6.5
519. Ozzy Osbourne & Randy Road – Suicide Solution (Live 1981): 7
520. Boyd Bennett and His Rockets – Hit That Jive Jack: 7
521. Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger: 7
517. The Microphones - Map: 8
518. Tomoya Ohtani – Boss: Solaris Phase 2: 6.5
519. Ozzy Osbourne & Randy Road – Suicide Solution (Live 1981): 7
520. Boyd Bennett and His Rockets – Hit That Jive Jack: 7
521. Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger: 7
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Today a hit song by one of the most critically derided acts of all time. The critics have devoted the last few years almost exclusively on reappraising previously hated, popular artists. Is it time we start to embrace Nickelback?
522. Nickelback - Someday
Year: 2003
Album: The Long Road
Biggest Fan: Karla (#165)
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522. Nickelback - Someday
Year: 2003
Album: The Long Road
Biggest Fan: Karla (#165)
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522. Nickelback - Someday: 4/10
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521. Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger: 5.5
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Someday isn’t the worst Nickelback song, but I’m still giving it a generous 3.
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522. Nickelback - Someday: 3
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Nickelback - Someday: 6
I've never been able to stand his voice, but whereas they have a lot of actually bad songs, I think this one is quite okay.
I've never been able to stand his voice, but whereas they have a lot of actually bad songs, I think this one is quite okay.
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No, I did not purposefully let Limp Bizkit follow up on Nickelback. Random.org just has a good sense of humour. Well, at least we get two actual hits in a row, a rarity in this game.
523. Limp Bizkit – My Generation
Year: 2000
Album: Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Biggest Fan: Spiritualized (#Unranked)
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523. Limp Bizkit – My Generation
Year: 2000
Album: Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Biggest Fan: Spiritualized (#Unranked)
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With all the songs in the world and people chose Nickelback and Limp Bizkit. Now I know why some of my songs ranked so low. We are just in 2 different worlds.
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523. Limp Bizkit - My Generation: 3/10
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520. Boyd Bennett and His Rockets – Hit That Jive Jack - 6
521. Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger - 6
522. Nickelback - Someday - 4
523. Limp Bizkit – My Generation - 4.5
521. Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger - 6
522. Nickelback - Someday - 4
523. Limp Bizkit – My Generation - 4.5
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To be fair, the Limp Bizkit and Nickelback songs didn't rank either (at least I don't think any did?).
Limp Bizkit - My Generation: 2
Where I was rather mild on Nickelback yesterday, I am not on Limp Bizkit today. Easily one of the worst songs that has appeared in this game, at least for me. If Run-DMC, almost twenty years before made it seem like a mix between rap and rock had a lot of potential, it were bands like Limp Bizkit that basically gave the whole idea a bad name. What annoys me about this song is how forced everything sounds: the guitar, the drums, the rapping, the lyrics. All of it sounds like it should be threatening and badass, but it just ends up feeling silly. I doubt if any band could seriously get away with lines like "It's Limp Bizkit fuckin' up your town/ we download in the shockwave", but it isn't these guys. They sound more like obnoxious teenagers desperate to prove themselves than a serious threat. The lyrical content (but not the wording) is close to that other famous 'My Generation', but performed without the humor and skill of The Who.
Limp Bizkit were at a peak in popularity when I was a teenager myself and this is what especially the boys were playing at the time, probably more than any other band, but I never understood the appeal. Also, they have one of the worst band names.
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Limp Bizkit – My Generation: 7/10
This was my jam when I was eleven years old
This was my jam when I was eleven years old
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Douche chills personified. I give My Generation 1/10.
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523. Limp Bizkit - My Generation: 2
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LOL oh Man, I think Limp Bizkit will get the worst rating of the game yet.
My nomination and I still enjoy it. It's stupid, loud, puerile but I don't follow much the celebrity hype on musical artists. So Fred Durst may be a douche, but when I feel like it, My Generation allows me to blow off steam. I guess Break Stuff takes the cake though if I need to let it go.
And I still feel it's a bit unfair - there was a band behind Fred Durst, and I think they had something. If you go past the silliness and poseur aspect of their leader, there was a lot of fun to be had.
It's only me though, but I have more fun with Limp Bizkit than the likes of Agnes Obel, Weyes Blood and co.
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Oh and it's an 8 for me !!!! Sacrilege !
My nomination and I still enjoy it. It's stupid, loud, puerile but I don't follow much the celebrity hype on musical artists. So Fred Durst may be a douche, but when I feel like it, My Generation allows me to blow off steam. I guess Break Stuff takes the cake though if I need to let it go.
And I still feel it's a bit unfair - there was a band behind Fred Durst, and I think they had something. If you go past the silliness and poseur aspect of their leader, there was a lot of fun to be had.
It's only me though, but I have more fun with Limp Bizkit than the likes of Agnes Obel, Weyes Blood and co.
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Oh and it's an 8 for me !!!! Sacrilege !
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Limp Bizkit – My Generation
5 (not especially good or bad)
This sounds like the music for every WWF pay-per-view commercial in the late '90s. If anything, I wanted this to be worse (Limp Bizkit is not exactly in fashion anymore), but alas.
5 (not especially good or bad)
This sounds like the music for every WWF pay-per-view commercial in the late '90s. If anything, I wanted this to be worse (Limp Bizkit is not exactly in fashion anymore), but alas.
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Nickelback - Someday
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A co-worker at an old job used to play Nickelback, a lot. I know from experience that involuntarily giving them a chance doesn't improve matters. They symbolized when "biggest rock band" somehow came to mean the lowest common denominator.
I'm starting to feel confident that my Justin Hayward song will make it out of the all-time bottom 10 some year at this rate.
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A co-worker at an old job used to play Nickelback, a lot. I know from experience that involuntarily giving them a chance doesn't improve matters. They symbolized when "biggest rock band" somehow came to mean the lowest common denominator.
I'm starting to feel confident that my Justin Hayward song will make it out of the all-time bottom 10 some year at this rate.
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And now for something completely different: the second appearance by Linda Ronstadt.
524. Linda Ronstadt – Love Has No Pride
Year: 1973
Album: Don’t Cry Now
Biggest Fan: Henry (#844)
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524. Linda Ronstadt – Love Has No Pride
Year: 1973
Album: Don’t Cry Now
Biggest Fan: Henry (#844)
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524. Linda Ronstadt - Love Has No Pride: 7/10
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4524. Linda Ronstadt - Love Has No Pride:
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Linda Ronstadt - Love Has No Pride: 6
I could listen to Linda Ronstadt all day with ease, but there are songs that she performed with more originality.
I could listen to Linda Ronstadt all day with ease, but there are songs that she performed with more originality.
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522. Nickelback - Someday: 2
523. Limp Bizkit – My Generation: 2.5
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524. Linda Ronstadt - Love Has No Pride: 6
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524. Linda Ronstadt - Love Has No Pride: 7/10
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And now the second appearance by Laura Nyro, with a song that bubbles under on the AM list:
525. Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’
Year: 1968
Album: Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Biggest Fan: Jackson (#714)
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525. Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’
Year: 1968
Album: Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Biggest Fan: Jackson (#714)
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Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’: 8
Love this album. I still haven't quite heard someone doing with her voice what Laura Nyro does on here. It is pure ecstasy made vocal. She also added such a sense of humor, despite performing in such difficult registers. I can see why it would be too much for some, but I find it irresistible. I had a couple of other, similar songs by Nyro on my own list, but Eli's Comin' is great too.
Love this album. I still haven't quite heard someone doing with her voice what Laura Nyro does on here. It is pure ecstasy made vocal. She also added such a sense of humor, despite performing in such difficult registers. I can see why it would be too much for some, but I find it irresistible. I had a couple of other, similar songs by Nyro on my own list, but Eli's Comin' is great too.
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524. Linda Ronstadt - Love Has No Pride: 6.5
525. Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’: 7.5
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525. Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’: 7.5
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525. Laura Nyro - Eli's Comin': 7/10
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524. Linda Ronstadt - Love Has No Pride - 7
525. Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’ - 8
525. Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’ - 8
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Ozzy Osborne & Randy Rhoads - Suicide Solution (Live 1981) 7 Can't fault the original or the Blizzard of Ozz album but the solodoesn't butter my parsnips
Boyd Bennett and his Rockets - Hit That Jive Jack 6
Eva Cassidy - Wayfaring Stranger 7
Nickleback - Someday 6
Limp Bizkit - My Generation 3
Linda Ronstadt - Love Has No Pride 5
Laura Nyro - Eli's Comin' 8.5
Boyd Bennett and his Rockets - Hit That Jive Jack 6
Eva Cassidy - Wayfaring Stranger 7
Nickleback - Someday 6
Limp Bizkit - My Generation 3
Linda Ronstadt - Love Has No Pride 5
Laura Nyro - Eli's Comin' 8.5
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Back to business with Hymie. He brings along perhaps his most obscure pick yet, which is not on Spotify.
526. The Baltineers – Moments Like This
Year: 1956
Released as a single
Biggest Fan: Hymie (#971)
The song on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLyHUARpTU
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526. The Baltineers – Moments Like This
Year: 1956
Released as a single
Biggest Fan: Hymie (#971)
The song on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLyHUARpTU
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508. Deftones – Sextape 5
509. Dead Kennedys – Bleed for Me 6
510. Citizen Band - Julia 6.5
511. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf 6
512. The Submarines - 1940 7
513. ABBA - Arrival 4
514. Fidlar – Cheap Beer 5.5
515. Prince – U Got the Look 10
516. Die Ärtze – Vorbei ist Vorbei 6
517. The Microphones - Map 7
518. Tomoya Ohtani – Boss: Solaris Phase 2 X
519. Ozzy Osbourne & Randy Road – Suicide Solution (Live 1981) 5.5
520. Boyd Bennett and His Rockets – Hit That Jive Jack 4
521. Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger 6
522. Nickelback - Someday 2
523. Limp Bizkit – My Generation 4
524. Linda Ronstadt – Love Has No Pride 5
525. Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’ 7
526. The Baltineers – Moments Like This 5.5
509. Dead Kennedys – Bleed for Me 6
510. Citizen Band - Julia 6.5
511. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf 6
512. The Submarines - 1940 7
513. ABBA - Arrival 4
514. Fidlar – Cheap Beer 5.5
515. Prince – U Got the Look 10
516. Die Ärtze – Vorbei ist Vorbei 6
517. The Microphones - Map 7
518. Tomoya Ohtani – Boss: Solaris Phase 2 X
519. Ozzy Osbourne & Randy Road – Suicide Solution (Live 1981) 5.5
520. Boyd Bennett and His Rockets – Hit That Jive Jack 4
521. Eva Cassidy – Wayfaring Stranger 6
522. Nickelback - Someday 2
523. Limp Bizkit – My Generation 4
524. Linda Ronstadt – Love Has No Pride 5
525. Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’ 7
526. The Baltineers – Moments Like This 5.5
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526. The Baltineers – Moments Like This - 7
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525. Laura Nyro – Eli’s Comin’: 8
526. The Baltineers – Moments Like This: 6
526. The Baltineers – Moments Like This: 6
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The Baltineers – Moments Like This: 4
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The second appearance by Radiohead, with the title track of one of their most renowned works. The song bubbles under on AM:
527. Radiohead – Kid A
Year: 2000
Album: Kid A
Biggest Fan: Ordinaryperson (#191)
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527. Radiohead – Kid A
Year: 2000
Album: Kid A
Biggest Fan: Ordinaryperson (#191)
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526. The Baltineers - Moments Like This: 4/10
527. Radiohead - Kid A: 6/10
527. Radiohead - Kid A: 6/10
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526. The Baltineers - Moments Like This: 7.25
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Radiohead - Kid A: 5
It's tough to give something from Kid A only a 5, as I adore the album. In context I would perhaps give this a 6, as it works well as a segue between Everything In It's Right place and the National Anthem, but taken on it's own it barely makes an impact at all. Now, this song isn't really meant to stand on it's own, but such is the nature of this game that now it is.
It's tough to give something from Kid A only a 5, as I adore the album. In context I would perhaps give this a 6, as it works well as a segue between Everything In It's Right place and the National Anthem, but taken on it's own it barely makes an impact at all. Now, this song isn't really meant to stand on it's own, but such is the nature of this game that now it is.
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527. Radiohead – Kid A: 7
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# | Artist | Song | Vote
518 | Tomoya Ohtani | Boss: Solaris Phase 2 | 6
519 | Ozzy Osbourne / Randy Rhoads | Suicide Solution (With Guitar Solo) | 6
520 | Boyd Bennett and His Rockets | Hit That Jive Jack | 7
521 | Eva Cassidy | Wayfaring Stranger | 6
522 | Nickelback | Someday | 4
523 | Limp Bizkit | My Generation | 5
524 | Linda Ronstadt | Love Has No Pride | 6
525 | Laura Nyro | Eli's Comin' | 7
526 | The Baltineers | Moments Like This | 7
527 | Radiohead | Kid A | 7
518 | Tomoya Ohtani | Boss: Solaris Phase 2 | 6
519 | Ozzy Osbourne / Randy Rhoads | Suicide Solution (With Guitar Solo) | 6
520 | Boyd Bennett and His Rockets | Hit That Jive Jack | 7
521 | Eva Cassidy | Wayfaring Stranger | 6
522 | Nickelback | Someday | 4
523 | Limp Bizkit | My Generation | 5
524 | Linda Ronstadt | Love Has No Pride | 6
525 | Laura Nyro | Eli's Comin' | 7
526 | The Baltineers | Moments Like This | 7
527 | Radiohead | Kid A | 7